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Disciplined inaction. - [Idleness] Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility. - [Fiction] It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. - [Contentment] Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. - quoted on the title page of Broom's "Legal Maxims" [Proverbs (General)] Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions. - [Opinion] The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex. - [Grace] Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow-men are the most confident of the troth of their own. - [Conceit : Dogmatism] The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Dissertation on Ethical Philosophy--Remarks on Thomas Brown [Idleness] Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. - Vindicioe Gallicoe [Knowledge] Masterly inactivity. - Vindicioe Gallicoe, probably from "Strenua inertia", Horace "Epistles", XI, 28 [Policy] The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. - Vindicioe Gallicoe (sec. I) [Government]
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